My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGThe result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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In Japan, a company worker’s position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity improvement.
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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual’s contribution far more than the individual himself.
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
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We are here to make another world.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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The prevailing – and foolish – attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he’s managing.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD.
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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Your workers don’t want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That’s inflation.
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